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Article: Location, location, location; * Considerations for locating a data center.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- January 2, 2007
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Byline: Andreas M. Antonopoulos
Real estate mavens will endlessly repeat the three criteria for a property: location, location, location. Data centers
are real estate, too, so what are the three most important criteria for the data center?
Location is the most important consideration for a new data center, as with any piece of real estate. But, what makes a good
location for a home does not make a good location for a data center.
When judging a location for a data center we need to examine three things - energy, environmental risk and connectivity. Let's
look at these three considerations in more detail.